20072
INSTRUCTION TO THE SECRETARY
[July, 1921]
Lorio¹ reports: The French delegate (?)
Jullien
(Jullien ?)
wrote me a letter regarding colonies.
I ask that the letter be found².

¹ Ferdinand Lorio — from 1920-1927 was a member of the Communist Party of France. Was a delegate to the III Congress of the Comintern. In 1927 was expelled from the Communist Party as a right opportunist.

² André Jullien — delegate to the III Congress of the Comintern from the French Socialist Party. In his letter Jullien informed Lenin about the communist movement in North Africa (Algeria-Tunisia), about the difficulties of work caused by the small amount of proletariat, the hostile attitude of colonial officials toward the native population, weak spread of literacy and education, etc.

Despite the difficulties, Jullien wrote, the communist sections of North Africa are working and achieving success. After discussion of the theses of the II Congress of the Comintern, the sections "voted by an overwhelming majority for joining the III International." The letter reports that for the first time in the life of Algeria a communist was elected as a general counselor, and his speeches in favor of the native population find great resonance. Jullien believes that in Algeria-Tunisia it is necessary to create a communist press.

20085
RECORD OF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
ON A. P. PINKEVICH¹
[1921, later July]

Pinkevich:
Known in the commission
1) Adoratsky in Kazan
2) Voroshilov² in Lugansk
3) 1906 in Petersburg

From Ufa (knows N. P. Bryukhanov).
On the Urals year VII. 1920 - VII. 1921
{ rector at party school}
\ Maximov, chairman of Promsovet
j Tuntul
Gerbek⁴, deputy of Maximov
: Sergeev Mikhail Alexeevich
From Ufa.
I Trotsky heard his speech⁵
L B. Kamenev

¹ A. P. Pinkevich — worker in Soviet higher education. From 1903-1908 was a member of the RSDLP. From 1917-1919 sided with the Mensheviks. From 1919-1921 was deputy, and then chairman of the Commission for the Improvement of the Life of Scientists.

² K. E. Voroshilov — outstanding figure of the Communist Party and Soviet state. Party member since 1903. From 1919-1921 — one of the organizers and member of the RVS¹ of the First Cavalry Army. At this time — commander of the North Caucasus Military District. Later — Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR.

³ Demyan Bedny — outstanding Soviet poet, member of the Bolshevik party since 1912.

I. P. Goldenberg — social-democrat. After the II Congress of the RSDLP — Bolshevik. During the period of new revolutionary upsurge — a conciliator. In 1920 was again admitted to the Bolshevik party. Journalist.

N. A. Rozhkov — historian and publicist, Menshevik. Greeted the October Revolution with hostility. Conducted struggle against Soviet power. By decision of the Politburo of the CC RCP(b) in December 1922 was warned of expulsion from Soviet Russia in case of continuation of anti-Soviet activity. Subsequently broke with the Mensheviks, worked in scientific-pedagogical and administrative positions in various institutions.

⁴ G. G. Gerbek — in 1921 — deputy chairman of Uralpromburo of the VSNKh and deputy chief of the Chief Committee for Supply of the Red Army.

20149
NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN
Comrade Chicherin
I received your letter concerning the Dashnaks¹. I do not object to
the negotiations you have proposed
with Ali-Fuad².

4 - VIII - [19]21 Lenin
Published according to typescript

¹ This refers to the letter of G. V. Chicherin to the CC RCP(b) of 17 July 1921, caused by his disagreement with the proposals of the delegation of the Central Committee consisting of A. A. Ioffe and others regarding the conclusion of a treaty with the nationalist Armenian party "Dashnaktsutyun." In his letter Chicherin resolutely speaks against an agreement with the Dashnaks.

² Ali-Fuad Pasha — ambassador of Turkey to the RSFSR. The matter concerns the forthcoming conclusion of a treaty with Turkey.

20541
INSTRUCTION TO V. A. SMOLYANINOV¹
Smolyaninov: obtain from Krasin and Chicherin a great noise,
protests, and so forth.
Check their measures².

30/8 [1921] Lenin

¹ In July 1921 in Constantinople, two employees of the Commissariat of Foreign Trade were illegally arrested by English officials. Having learned of this from a letter of a member of the Russian-Ukrainian trade delegation in the Near East M. F. Kuznetsov, V. I. Lenin wrote this instruction to V. A. Smolyaninov.

V. A. Smolyaninov — member of the RSDLP since 1908. From April 1921 — assistant to the manager of affairs of the Council of People's Commissars and Council of Labor and Defense on questions of economic and economic construction, subsequently manager of affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR.

² On the envelope of the transmittal note of the secretary of the Soviet trade delegation in London N. K. Klyshko there are underlining and a resolution of V. I. Lenin: "For Smolyaninov's information (part for execution)," and on the cover of this file — a mark: "Aregie." On 3 September 1921 V. A. Smolyaninov transmitted Lenin's instruction to G. V. Chicherin and L. B. Krasin.

20553
DRAFT DIRECTIVE OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CC RCP(b)
TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RSFSR IN GERMANY V. L. KOPP¹
[31 August 1921]
The Politburo of the Central Committee attaches great significance to that group of concessionaires with which you are conducting negotiations. You are instructed to accelerate the negotiations and to refute all gossip and all falsehoods to the effect that we are against this group. We are entirely for it and will show it preference, if it itself does not delay and does not force us, contrary to our ardent wish, to give the matter to competitors. Do not believe the gossip. Conduct the matter i n d e p e n d e n t l y and quickly. We will sign the contract in Moscow, if only your concessionaires will stop procrastination and quickly provide us with an acceptable draft of the contract.

Signed as read
So-and-So

¹ On 31 August 1921 the Politburo of the Central Committee of the party heard the question of directives to the representative of the RSFSR in Germany V. L. Kopp on special work in Berlin and adopted a resolution — to approve.

The matter concerned the organization of negotiations with German industrial firms regarding the conclusion of trade and concession agreements. The negotiations were conducted through the trade representatives of the RSFSR in Germany V. L. Kopp, B. S. Stomonyakov, V. L. Shklovskiy, V. V. Starkov, and others.

20567
NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN¹
[August, 1921]
To Chicherin
Confidential

Comrade Chicherin!
It is necessary in every way to accelerate (by telegram from Kopp regarding the X.² proposals) the departure (it seems, of Peters³). Because the proposal of the Germans (Peter + grain concession in the Kuban) is of extreme importance for us. Accelerate in every way. Write me 2 words.

With comr. greetings Lenin

¹ The matter concerns economic negotiations of V. L. Kopp with a group of representatives of five major industrial banks and companies of Germany, which formed a "consortium." This group set as its task putting into operation several factories in Petrograd for the repair of locomotives and agricultural machines, as well as the arrangement of warehouse facilities in Moscow and Petrograd.

² Y. Kh. Peters was traveling to Germany to work out the production program of the concession.

20635
NOTE TO N. S. LEPESHINSKAYA¹
Comrade Lepeshinskaya!
I request
1) To enter into your 2 copies of the theses² my corrections (in red ink and pencil), noting that these are my corrections.

2) The original of Kiselev's theses send after this to Molotov³.

3) 2 copies of the theses send to Petersburg, enclosing them in the accompanying envelopes (to Oborin and Moiseev⁴).

4/IX [1921] Lenin

¹ N. S. Lepeshinskaya — employee of V. I. Lenin's secretariat (from 1918 to 1923).

² The matter concerns the theses of A. S. Kiselev "Basic Propositions on the Tariff Question," worked out by a group of members of the MSNKh and approved by a conference of leaders (consisting of 30 persons) of the largest production associations (see Lenin Collection XXIII, pp. 258-260).

A. S. Kiselev — party member since 1898. From 1921-1923 — chairman of the Small Council of People's Commissars.

³ In a note to V. M. Molotov of 4 September 1921 V. I. Lenin proposed to send the theses to all members of the Politburo and to approve by telephone; reported that on 5 September he was sending the theses to Petersburg to Oborin (see Complete Collected Works, vol. 53, pp. 172-173, 175).

⁴ V. P. Oborin — had been in the party since 1904. In 1921 — secretary of the collegium of the electro-section at the Petrograd Economic Council. At the XV Congress of the All-Union CP(b) was expelled from the party for participation in the anti-party group of "democratic centralism."

E. I. Moiseev — electrical engineer. In 1921 — head of the main technical standardization bureau of the electro-section of the Petrograd Provincial Economic Council.

20706
LETTER TO B. S. STOMONYAKOV
8/IX [1921]
Comrade Stomonyakov!
I received and read your note on the matter, i.e., Kopp's negotiations¹. Be that as it may, a contract with the German group is of extreme importance for us, and we will in every way support the desire (if there is one: it must be sought, supported) to be against the Entente.